The Monthly SpookyFirehose

October, 2022

Happy Halloween! I can't speak for everyone, but my whole family is really excited to dress up and hang out with friends tonight. My wife and I are going Stranger Things themed, as one might expect of us. Other than a lot of links to share, there isn't anything particularly spooky in this newsletter except the day it is sent on. Stay safe and have fun out there!

As a housekeeping note: we moved this monthly blast to the end of the month instead of the beginning of the next month. It helps us organize our links internall, with very little direct benefit to you. Not even sure why I mention it. Or keep going on about it. Anyway — here are some recent highlights!

Highlights That Are Recent

• We shipped a new featured called Computed Values which are similar to (but more powerful than) Laravel Eloquent Attributes in many ways.
• We added a "Replace Assets" feature that allows you to swap a new asset for an existing one and update all references to it throughout your content.
• Starter Kits now support Post-Install commands so you show additional information, run extra operations, or prompt your users for configuratable actions.
• We've added numerous performance improvements, translation updates, and a fixed a whole bunch of issues.
• Berlin had their first Statamic Meetup and you can watch all 3 talks on YouTube.
• Jack McDade was on the CraftEntries podcast (weird, right?) talking about the last 10 years of Statamic
• Zuzana Kunkova is teaching Statamic development at the University of Southern California. How neat is that?
• John Koster, who wrote the new Antlers Engine, has a new book — Advanced PHP Strings: Text analysis, generation, and parsing via. Laravel. Go check it out!
• We just switched to Mailcoach Cloud to send our newsletters, and this is the first one. If you had any issues reading or receving this, please let us know so we can provide helpful feedback to Spatie!

Helping Others

As we head into the holidays we want to to do what we can to help others.

🙏 If you're able, we'd love for you to join us in raising funds to feed the working families, children, and seniors in need who face hunger every day in this country.

We’re hoping to raise $1,000 which we will match with another $1,000. If you're interested, you can donate online through Feeding America.

So far we've raised $200 (plus our matching $200). We're 20% of the way to our goal!

Statamic Progress at a Glace

October's Progress & Pulse

Last month we closed 52 issues, merged 57 pull requests, shipped 8 releases, and had contributions from 23 developers.

Newest Starter Kits

Elevate your business with seamless SaaS solutions

Newest Addons

Icons Plus

Search over 200,000 open source icons at once! No more downloading or copying and pasting SVGs. Search it, select it, use it.

Bluesky Comments for Statamic

Attach a Bluesky thread to your Entries for a commenting system managed through Bluesky.

Instagram Business API

Statamic Instagram Business API lets you fetch data via the Instagram Business API into your Statamic site.

AI Alt Text

AI-powered alt text generation for Statamic assets using OpenAI's Vision-API

Loupe Search Driver

Local SQLite search engine integration

Entriloquent

Statamic addon that lets you use entries of any collection similar to how you use Laravel models

Supersonic

Supersonic is a command palette for Statamic to take your efficiency to the next level.

Raster

Rasterise views and partials to images by simply adding a tag and fetching the URL.

Short URLs

Short Urls is a Statamic addon for managing short urls in CP.

Resend Form Submissions

Adds a button to the submissions list that allows you to resend the email for the form submission

New Articles, Blog Posts, and Videos

Community Content

• Use Lottie animations with Alpine and Statamic by Rob de Kort
• Using Torchlight with Statamic's Bard field by Duncan McClean
• How to Deploy Statamic to Shared Hosting with Github Actions by Zsolt Janes
• An opinionated deployment and configuration guide for Statamic by Ben Edmonds from We Sort
• How to setup Laravel Sail in Windows 11/10 with WSL2 (for a Statamic dev environment) by Zunnur Suhaimi
• Implementing Astro live previews in headless Statamic by Maciek Palmowski
• Redis as a queue driver for Statamic by Rob de Kort
• Advanced Torchlight Integration with Statamic's Bard Field by Joe Tannenbaum
• How to Deploy Statamic - Laravel Forge basics by Jonas Siewertsen (paid course)
• On Self Publishing with Leanpub by John Koster

New Site Launches

Some great new sites launched this month! These are the ones shared with us in Discord, Twitter, or via email.

• By Sander Goorden 🇳🇱 — banyancentrum.nl
• By Kieran Bowler 🇬🇧 — switches.mx
• By Tomas G. 🇱🇹 — tomasg.dev
• By Daniel 🇺🇸 — l4yinc.com
• By Jack Sleight 🇬🇧 — kdllaw.com
• By Doug Niccum 🇺🇸 — schierproducts.com
• By Maxine Hargrove 🇩🇪🇺🇸 — mxh.digital
• By Dave Smyth 🇬🇧 — davesmyth.studio
• By Rob de Kort 🇳🇱 — ishetalveilig.nl
• By Lorenz Hirsch 🇩🇪 — lias-restaurant.com/en
• By Michael Scruse from Mity Digital 🇦🇺 — orchardhro.com.au
• By Eugen Juhos 🇸🇰 — maxkenu.sk
• By Dominik Radl from Ja & Armin 🇦🇹 — tglaw.at
• By Jack Sleight 🇬🇧 — henfieldbn5.co.uk
• By Davor Minchorov 🇲🇰 — learnhub.dev
• By SiteHost 🇳🇿 — sitehost.nz
• By Olivier Binoclard 🇫🇷 — trilogies.org
• By Daniel Plomp — oqqies.com
• By Andreas Schantl 🇦🇹 — agropac.at
• By Mity Digital 🇦🇺 — tudorbuilding.com.au
• By Askew Brook 🇬🇧 — dalepowersolutions.com
• By Ryan Mitchell 🇮🇪 — us.10ofthose.com

Have you built a Statamic site recently you'd like to show off? Reply to this email and let us know about it!